Crosstown High School

Crosstown High School is a small high school based in Memphis, Tennessee. It teaches 520 students in grades 9 through 12. That is 31% below the average of about 754 students for high schools in Tennessee.

Across its 211 schools, Memphis-Shelby County Schools enrolls 111,979 students. Crosstown High School is one of those schools.

Of every 100 students at Crosstown High School, about 51 are Black. It is also 31% White, 13% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Among Shelby County residents, the Black share is about 52%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Crosstown High School scores 63%.

In Shelby County, home to about 919,173 people, the median household earns about $63,767 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Shelby County number 287, with about 154,209 students.

Memphis Academy Of Science Engineering Middle/High is the nearest public school to Crosstown High School, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Crosstown High School is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

Enrollment increased by 30% across 4 years, from 399 in 2020-21 to 520 in 2024-25.

This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Crosstown High School. Members of the school community can share what they know.